CS 153

Anjney Midha

The AI stack is being rebuilt from the ground up, and most people only see one layer of it. CS 153: Frontier Systems hosted at Stanford walks through the entire architecture, from energy and silicon to foundation models and the applications reshaping how we work, create, and discover. Each week, a leader from a different layer of the stack joins to share what they're actually building and what they've learned doing it. This spring's speakers include Jensen Huang, Sam Altman, Lisa Su, Satya Nadella, Andrej Karpathy, Ben Horowitz, and founders from Sesame, Roblox, Periodic Labs, and more.Instructors are Anjney Midha, Founder, AMP PBC and Mike Abbott, ex-GM/Apple/Twitter/KP

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  1. 2 NGÀY TRƯỚC

    Scott Nolan from General Matter on Energy Bottlenecks

    In a CS 153 Frontier Systems lecture, the class zooms out from AI model labs to examine energy and electricity as upstream bottlenecks to compute and data center growth, intensified since ChatGPT’s 2022 breakout and renewed enterprise demand after Claude 4.6. Guest Scott Nolan, CEO of General Matter, argues that uptime requirements and turbine shortages make baseload power crucial, pushing hyperscalers toward nuclear for its low carbon emissions and safety record. He explains nuclear’s fuel supply chain and identifies uranium enrichment as the key missing U.S. capability, with the U.S. holding under 0.1% enrichment market share and relying on Europe and Russia. Nolan describes founding General Matter in 2024, winning a $900M DOE contract, building a Kentucky facility, and hiring toward hundreds to thousands of roles.

    1 giờ

  2. 5 NGÀY TRƯỚC

    Nikhyl Singhal from Skip on Product Management in the AI Era

    In a CS 153 guest lecture, Professor Mike Abbott shifts from technical topics to product, tracing how software moved from PRD-driven project management to founder-led consumer product building, and arguing AI is blurring the boundaries between design, engineering, and product. Nikhyl Singhal shares his background founding companies and leading product at Google, Meta, and Credit Karma, then explains four company phases—finding product-market fit, post-fit process and coordination, hypergrowth scale-and-expand, and late-stage reinvention—each requiring different product skills. He reflects on Google Hangouts as a lesson in solving real customer problems and iterating quickly. Singhal describes The Skip, a curated community and coaching effort focused on careers, and discusses AI’s impact: less value in information-moving PM work, more demand and pay for hands-on product builders with judgment, flatter orgs, anxiety from layoffs, and heightened risk for non-technical middle managers.

    1 giờ 3 phút

  3. 17 THG 4

    Amit Jain from Luma AI on Unified Intelligence Systems

    In week three of CS 153, the instructor hosts Amit Jain from Luma to discuss “Unified Intelligence Systems” as a follow-up to a prior lecture on visual intelligence. Jain recounts his Apple work on LiDAR for projects including Titan and Vision Pro, and how early exploration of generative models and differentiable 3D led to founding Luma with an initial focus on large-scale 3D capture. Luma then shifted to generative video in 2023 to leverage the scale of internet video data, releasing the Dream Machine model in March 2024 and rapidly reaching millions of users, while building preference-based feedback loops and human annotation pipelines. Jain explains Luma’s multimodal AI factory—pretraining, post-training, deployment, and reinforcement learning—its security constraints for studio clients, and a move toward unified transformer architectures that jointly reason across text, images, video, and audio to enable end-to-end creative and professional workflows.

    58 phút

  4. 11 THG 4

    Andreas Blattmann from Black Forest Labs on Frontier Visual Intelligence Systems

    In this CS 153 “Frontier Systems” session, Anjney Midha welcomes Andreas Blattmann, co-founder of Black Forest Labs and co-creator of Stable Diffusion, for a discussion on the visual intelligence frontier and how frontier AI “factories” scale. Blattmann recounts his path from mechanical engineering to a Heidelberg PhD lab, developing latent diffusion to train image generators efficiently and enabling Stable Diffusion’s 2022 release. They contrast earlier unimodal content-creation models with today’s push toward unified multimodal systems spanning images, video, and audio, plus action prediction for computer use and robotics, emphasizing observation and interaction loops. Using Flux as a case study, they cover pre-training, mid-training, post-training, distillation for speed, customer feedback driving image editing and character consistency, and why open weights enable customization. They also discuss Self Flow for multimodal alignment, safety guardrails, EU compliance, data labeling strategies, diffusion vs autoregressive tradeoffs, and skepticism about explicit 3D representations.

    1 giờ 1 phút

  5. 10 THG 4

    Mati Staniszewski from ElevenLabs on The Future of Voice Systems

    In week two of CS 153 ("AI Coachella"), Anjney Midha interviews Mati Staniszewski, founder and CEO of ElevenLabs, tracing the company’s origins from an early Discord text-to-speech bot to a fast-growing frontier audio and speech platform. Mati explains ElevenLabs’ initial focus on solving AI dubbing inspired by Poland’s single-voice film narration, the shift to prioritizing emotional, natural-sounding text-to-speech for creators, and the evolution from cascaded pipelines (transcription, translation/LLM, and speech generation) toward real-time voice agents. They discuss tradeoffs between cascaded versus fused multimodal systems, efforts to detect and convey emotion, safety and voice authentication limits, on-device model deployment, collaboration with teams like Sesame, and business lessons on PLG plus enterprise deployment, team structure, pricing from customer value, and growth to over $430M revenue with ~450 employees.

    1 giờ 6 phút

  6. 9 THG 4

    Anjney Midha from AMP PBC on Frontier Systems

    Anjney Midha opens the quarter of Stanford’s CS 153 Frontier Systems by framing the course as a speaker-led “AI Coachella,” emphasizing relationships, fun, and “obsessing over what you love” as a life heuristic. He introduces his background and the course goal of real-world preparedness, then outlines the modern AI stack from capital and data centers through chips, cloud, models, applications, and governance. Midha reviews how AI development has industrialized—especially reinforcement learning and continuous post-training—and argues that “context” and verifiable feedback loops determine where progress accelerates and where value accrues, citing examples like IDE access conflicts and sovereign AI needs. He then deep-dives on compute infrastructure, showing how capabilities and revenue correlate with compute buildouts, why GPU prices can rise, how infrastructure cycles resemble past commodity booms, and why compute remains non-fungible without standards and institutions.

    1 giờ 6 phút
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The AI stack is being rebuilt from the ground up, and most people only see one layer of it. CS 153: Frontier Systems hosted at Stanford walks through the entire architecture, from energy and silicon to foundation models and the applications reshaping how we work, create, and discover. Each week, a leader from a different layer of the stack joins to share what they're actually building and what they've learned doing it. This spring's speakers include Jensen Huang, Sam Altman, Lisa Su, Satya Nadella, Andrej Karpathy, Ben Horowitz, and founders from Sesame, Roblox, Periodic Labs, and more.Instructors are Anjney Midha, Founder, AMP PBC and Mike Abbott, ex-GM/Apple/Twitter/KP

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